Uli
@Uli@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Anon has fries 1 day ago:
Anon made the right call, she only wanted him for his fries, she would have been gone once the fries were gone.
- Comment on Anon has fries 1 day ago:
The prophecy
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I guess there’s two kinds of ignorance at play here.
The kind I was referring to is the ignorance of high standards. If you don’t know that you can live in a state of constant dopamine drip supplied by your cellular device, because cellular devices haven’t been invented yet, you wouldn’t miss those dopamine hits that you don’t even know will exist. I think OP would have been just fine if they were born into an earlier generation. Because they would have the bliss of not knowing what future they’re missing out on.
But to your point, the constantly supplied bliss from our internet bubbles does make us more ignorant to the things outside our bubble. And these days, the things we focus on are often dictated by the corporations who make the addictive apps. So, those corporations will profit by directing away from knowledge about how those same corporations are destroying so many parts of our world. In this case, I would argue that the ignorance is still bliss. It’s just a malignant harmful bliss that distracts from the real things we should be concerned about. And in a way, if it could snap us out the destructive path we’re on, I could see how another Carrington event might actually act as a wake-up call regarding our blatant hubris in thinking that society is ever safe from collapse.
As you mentioned, there are those who live in parts of the world where they have no access to technology, still living in that blissful ignorance of pre-computerized times. But that is a social bliss. They will still be hurt by the geological effects that the industrial age has wrought. And it won’t be pretty.
So, I think I would agree with your assertion, plus an addendum. Ignorance isn’t bliss. But it was.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I look at TV shows like OP is talking about and think it might be kind of nice to live in an era where things are slower. If a library book might take weeks and you need to go into town to get a comic book, or there’s nothing to do until dinner except maybe some activity with the people in your close vicinity, it feels like a much more intimate way to experience the world. But I do remember in my early teens when the first wave of Personal Data Assistants came out, and I was wowed by the technology. I can edit a computer document right here in the palm of my hand. Keep my contacts with me, a calendar, a calculator, simple drawing programs. It felt like that device could do everything, years before smartphone was a word. Now I carry two phones around on two different carriers because I too fear a world without service. I sometimes want to go back to the slower world, so I do at times relish long waits at the DMV with nothing to do, or a power outage on a stormy night. But I hate feeling like I’m wasting my time. Even when there’s nothing to do, I’m always trying to do something, it’s just that being constrained forces me to pick different things. So, I’m not sure if it would help or hurt OP to hear that if they grew up before any of this existed, there’s every possibility they would have felt more fulfilled. Because time was something you could still get a handle on and not feel like it’s always slipping away. At least, not so much. In that sense, ignorance can really be bliss.
- Comment on Anon has a dream 1 week ago:
Based on his comment history, this guy doesn’t seem very well liked in general. Lots of incel vibes, and he does have some comments in German which I can’t read, but based on the downvotes, I think it’s safe to say his views are unpopular in any language.
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 3 weeks ago:
He’s moved on to another plane.
- Comment on Maybe the most 3 weeks ago:
But the sentence works when put in this order:
972 461 5380
Someone braver than me should dial that number.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 3 weeks ago:
I can believe this - that Trump was paying Epstein for pedophile shit and Clinton never got involved. I also find it pretty easy to believe that despite never being involved with Epstein, Bill Clinton is a scumbag and a rapist, considering the numerous allegations against him:
…wikipedia.org/…/Bill_Clinton_sexual_assault_and_…
It’s not proof per se, but with politicians these days, I believe it’s most accurate to find them dirty and corrupt until proven otherwise via their legislative actions (to wit, I’m not holding my breath vis-à-vis 99% of Congress).
- Comment on What more you want? 3 weeks ago:
“That line’s not supposed to ring. Who is it?”
“Sir, it sounds like… you know that movie from the 2010s, the one with the cave people?”
“Ice Age?”
“No. No, not that one. It’s got Nick Cage in it.”
Grug: “He actually goes by Nicolas.”
“What?”
“What?”
Grug: “You can say Nick, it’s fine. You’ve gotta get us out of here!”
- Comment on Tis the way 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s me, I’m the buyer. At any expense, I must possess all the apes. I’m here from the future, to spread the word that if we allow the genral public to have ownership over this level of stupidity, it will result in a runaway moron effect. And if left unchecked, then in my time, four hundred years from now, when we make first contact with other spacefaring civilizations, they’re going to think we’re really lame.
- Comment on Papa I'm scared 4 weeks ago:
Vonnegut is my favorite, the one I model my own writing style after. Galopagos is my jam.
- Comment on Max Is Changing Its Name to (Get This!) HBO Max 4 weeks ago:
Next year, they will start a loyalty program where they ship cardboard boxes to anyone who wants to ship things out of their home. This will coincide with their rebranding to “Home Box Office.”
- Comment on I fucking hate modern design and modern designers. 5 weeks ago:
Use a script on another device to constantly type a space and then a backspace into the text input box at every moment of every day except for when you are actually composing a message.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
Yeah, 2 tines and 4 handle is a pretty good fork, I’ll admit. I just worry about the concave shape of the top side of the handle causing the edges to dig into my fingers with long-term use.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
Those prongs are fine. The handle, though, it’s like having a huge counterweight on the back of the utensil. I can imagine liking it if it’s always been that way or if you have big hands. Otherwise, handle number 5 is the clear improvement - no sharp edges, properly balanced, not shaped like a wedge. Could hold that fork for days.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
The will of the people
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 month ago:
It is clear to me that the only explanation for your preference is nostalgia.
- Comment on The pipeline 1 month ago:
Yeah, I want to feel that bone in my mouth. Put that bone inside me, chicken. Let me suck the meat from your bone.
This comment brought to you by manly men who are straight and also not gay.
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 1 month ago:
She should swallow a hydrogen cyanide capsule that only dissolves if triggered by the detection of radioactive decay.
Who knows what will happen to that cat?
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 1 month ago:
Well, it gets confusing when your mom is a famous stock photo hand model.
- Comment on ＼(゜o゜;)/ 1 month ago:
We’re gonna need a cuter boat.
- Comment on Anon notices lazy writing 2 months ago:
So, it turns out JRR Tolkien was just Tolkien out his Rs.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 2 months ago:
Well, now that we know what’s out there, I think we should focus our efforts on putting a big sea monster into the ocean.
- Comment on Couldn't be worse than what we have now... 2 months ago:
Free popcorn and squeezy cheese for everyone. Free them! Narf!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
I don’t like the rootkit. I do everything I possibly can on Linux aside from the one game that requires it. That said, since they started using the rootkit, there has been a steep drop-off in bots in the game. As in I don’t see any anymore. So, annoying and a huge security risk? Absolutely. Dubious? Maybe? Depends on what you mean.
- Comment on light pollution 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s what they do in Hawaii currently, with amber LEDs that mimic the tone of the old sodium-vapor lamps.
It’s definitely an improvement. I would love to see both the matrix and the amber spectrum applied at the same time, that’s like peak utopia for me right there.
- Comment on light pollution 2 months ago:
Or maybe areas like Hawaii where preventing light pollution is of critical importance? I feel like a lot of mass-produced technologies face their main hurdle at manufacturing and if early adopters fund those initial manufacturing costs, the price can then come down quite a lot. But ultimately, it’s mostly wishful thinking, how I would want the world to be, seeing the issues all around us now.
- Comment on light pollution 2 months ago:
I had a thought last night. Some new cars have “matrix” headlights, which will detect oncoming drivers and use an LCD matrix to block out areas that would blind the oncoming driver.
I was looking at the shadow cast on my back door from a streetlight a couple blocks away and thinking it’s a very useful light for people walking on the street. Just not for me standing in my backyard or the birds sleeping in my trees.
I wonder if we could start applying this active matrix technology to streetlights. Each time one is set up, we could program it to illuminate all the walkways but not much else. Just an idea.
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 2 months ago:
That’s the same way they did it on Mythbusters.
- Comment on Kettle Chips 2 months ago: